Usman Chadda
Senior T20I Player
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2005
- Runs
- 18,927
Experience is leading us nowhere. Grafters are leading us nowhere. It's time Pakistan became a poor man's England ODI team and pushes dashers/stroke-makers only from domestic cricket into the LOI teams. Don't care about the fans or their mood swings. Let them have fun. Just go out there and play your natural game, not worrying too much about your place or the result. We are getting thrashed time and time again with these lallu-panju experienced slow pokes or 'solid' players with strike-rate in the 70s even in domestic cricket.
Get the Mukhtar Ahmeds, Awais Zia's etc into the team. If you can be crazy enough to try Faheem Ashraf as an opener, you can be innovative enough to try this out. Babar and Sarfraz are two grafters that are good enough to hold one end if something goes wrong.
The point is to make yourself exciting to watch. We might lose 5-0 with this approach, but the new players will learn. The neutrals will tune into watch Pakistan play. We will be truly unpredictable then at least. Right now we are getting thrashed because we are so predictably bad.
Follow the McCullum way of thinking from now on. Thats the only way to shock this ridiculous batting culture out of the rut. We cannot do worse than what we are doing now seriously.
Get the Mukhtar Ahmeds, Awais Zia's etc into the team. If you can be crazy enough to try Faheem Ashraf as an opener, you can be innovative enough to try this out. Babar and Sarfraz are two grafters that are good enough to hold one end if something goes wrong.
The point is to make yourself exciting to watch. We might lose 5-0 with this approach, but the new players will learn. The neutrals will tune into watch Pakistan play. We will be truly unpredictable then at least. Right now we are getting thrashed because we are so predictably bad.
Follow the McCullum way of thinking from now on. Thats the only way to shock this ridiculous batting culture out of the rut. We cannot do worse than what we are doing now seriously.